Canadian Women Rock!

Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:36 am » by **Newearthman**

We rock the Gold

We are the CHAMPIONS!

Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:42 am » by **Dazfromoz**

Good for you :flop:

Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:02 am » by **Princessleia**

Way to go Canada! :flop:

Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:08 am » by **Lucidlemondrop**

Good job...

I hear the media is making an issue of them partying after the win.

Geez, give them a break, they worked hard for that Gold.......

Have one on me, Girls!

:cheers:

Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:15 am » by **Mojorisin**

Congratulations Canada!!

Compelling and courageous athletes... and a beautiful country too! I've learned more about this nation in the last two weeks than ever before... and now... can't wait to see it up close.

Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:56 am » by **Princessleia**

lucidlemondrop wrote:Good job...

I hear the media is making an issue of them partying after the win.

Geez, give them a break, they worked hard for that Gold.......

Have one on me, Girls!

Oh yea? I didn't hear about that. That is messed up. I think they should be able to celebrate without the media making such a big deal about it.

Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:00 am » by **Justhuman**

Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:14 am » by **Lucidlemondrop**

justhuman wrote:

That was a snappy little tune!

Then we have Scotty.....

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- American halfpipe bronze medalist Scotty Lago volunteered to leave the Olympics on Friday after risque pictures of him showed up on the Internet.

Lago, who was awarded his bronze medal Thursday night, was at a party, wearing a Team USA T-shirt when somebody snapped a photo of a woman kneeling below Lago's waist to kiss his medal. That picture, and another showing him sticking the medal in the woman's mouth while teammate Greg Bretz looks on, appeared Friday on the TMZ Web site.

Winter Olympics blog

ESPN and ESPN.com Olympic contributors write about all things Vancouver in ESPN.com's Winter Olympics blog.

Lago apologized to officials at the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and decided to go home.

"Scotty Lago is a great athlete, but with that comes a responsibility of proper conduct, and his involvement in this situation is not acceptable," U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association President and CEO Bill Marolt said in an e-mail. "Scotty realizes his conduct was inappropriate. He has formally apologized and also made a decision to leave Vancouver today."

In the aftermath of several out-of-competition incidents in Turin, one of which resulted in the dismissal of freestyle skier Jeret Peterson, the USOC has made extra efforts to emphasize athletes be on their best behavior when they're at the Olympics.

Before the Beijing Games, the USOC began its "Ambassador Program" that athletes are made to complete before they travel to the games.

Lago was a member of a group of snowboarders called the "Frends," that included Kevin Pearce and Danny Davis, both of whom were badly injured before the Olympics and couldn't make the trip.

"I put all that aside and rode," Lago said.

He said he put together one of the best runs of his life to win the surprise bronze on a night overshadowed by Shaun White and his gold-medal performance.

http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/wint ... id=4929283

Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:18 am » by **Princessleia**

Yea, I heard about Scotty.

Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:22 am » by **Justhuman**

lucidlemondrop wrote:
That was a snappy little tune!

Ok, as you may or may not know - English is not my native language. I tried to Google the meaning of the word "snappy" and got various results. In short - what did you mean by it?